A mom has described having to make the gut-wrenching decision to take both of her young children off life support after they drowned together in a New Jersey pool over Memorial Day weekend.

Brittney McWhite said her two kids, London Marie, 11, and Wadale, 14, were playing “Marco Polo” at a pool in Gloucester County, New Jersey, at a family party when they suddenly drowned.

McWhite told Fox 29 in Philadelphia that she only took her eyes off her children for three or four minutes while she helped prepare food for the party.

She said she could hear the kids yell each other’s names while playing.

When McWhite turned her attention back to the pool, she said she couldn’t see her kids anymore.

After week on life support, McWhite said her family made the difficult decision to pull the plug on Sunday.

“Keeping my child hooked onto a machine for the rest of their life is not ideally what any parent should want for their children, so today me and dad decided to end life support,” she said.

“I know they’re at peace, it’s just very devastating,” McWhite told the TV station.

“Not to lose one child but two. I think that’s more challenging because you can’t stomach that, but you have to keep going.”

The grieving mother said her story should serves as a warning for other parents to always remain vigilant as their children play in the water during the summer.

The kids were found at the bottom of the pool, and although they were quickly pulled out, neither child ever regained consciousness.  

“Make sure the pool is safe. Make sure if it doesn’t look right, don’t do it,” McWhite said.

“Because once you lose your child, it is hard. It’s really hard to stomach.”

McWhite noted that her daughter would have turned 12 next week, and Wadale had just graduated from the eighth grade.

Drownings remain the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths for children ages 1 to 4, and the second leading cause for all minors, according to the CDC.